hyper-research

hyper-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zeikar/hyperclaude. It costs 59 tokens per session (2,716 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research step for substantial development tasks that gathers prior art, risks, and recommendations through parallel Codex and Claude research paths. It saves the results as research files for later planning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before a non-trivial task when you want research artifacts to guide the next planning step; skip it for small fixes or when recent research already exists.
Why use it?
It gives an implementation effort additional context before design decisions are made and can reveal known pitfalls.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the hyperclaude plugin — 19 skills, 6 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zeikar/hyperclaude/hyper-research
Any agent
npx skills add zeikar/hyperclaude --skill hyper-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zeikar/hyperclaude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install hyperclaude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 6 agents, 2 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,716 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00059 $0.02716
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01358
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00543
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00272

Measured 3d ago against content hash 6499150ef859, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hyper-research scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

node -e 'const c=require("child_process");let h;try{h=c.execSync("git rev-parse HEAD").toString().trim();}catch(e){h="unknown";}console.log(JSON.stringify({generated:new Date().toISOString(),cwd:process.cwd(),gitHead:h})
skills/hyper-research/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

hyper-research

Pre-implementation research gate. By default runs both the Codex research path and the Claude research path in parallel, producing two artifacts (.hyperclaude/research/<timestamp>-<slug>.md from Codex and .hyperclaude/research/<timestamp>-<slug>-claude.md from Claude) that share one frontmatter slug:; you read them and integrate findings into your next planning step. A single path runs only on explicit user request.

When to use

  • User typed /hyperclaude:hyper-research <task>.
  • You're about to start substantial new work and want a parallel Codex + Claude research context dump.

Skip when:

  • The task is a small fix or rename.
  • A recent research file (within ~30 min) already covers this task.

How to invoke

--resume is not supported (deferred — research is not iterative).

Invocation argument: $ARGUMENTS

Path selection

Two research paths exist (Codex and Claude). Pick by reading the user's intent — this is a plain-language rule, not a flag/token/$ARGUMENTS grammar:

  • Default (a normal /hyperclaude:hyper-research <task>, or any case not explicitly single-path) → both paths in parallel (Codex + Claude), producing two artifacts that share one slug.
  • ONLY if the user EXPLICITLY asks for Codex only / no ClaudeCodex path alone.
  • ONLY if the user EXPLICITLY asks for Claude only / Claude-native / no-Codex / a Claude second opinionClaude path alone.
  • If the intent is genuinely unclear → treat it as the default (both paths in parallel). Only narrow to a single path on an unambiguous explicit request.

All cases first resolve the task description the same way:

  • If the invocation argument is non-empty, that is the task description.
  • If empty, fall back to the user's most recent build/implement intent in this conversation. If none exists, ask the user to describe the task and stop.

Default: both paths in parallel

This is the default. Run the Codex and Claude research paths concurrently so the two multi-minute operations overlap:

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 150 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 6499150ef859

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hyper-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository zeikar/hyperclaude (3 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 2,716 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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